Unreliable Wifi in Windows 8.1 on new MacBookPro Retina Late 2013
I received a new MacBook Pro with Mavericks this week.
I installed Windows 8.1 via bootcamp.
The install went perfectly and everything is working except every few minutes its looses its wifi connection.
Turning wifi off and on temporarily fixes the problem.
Wifi in Mavericks is perfectly stable.
The problem occurs on different wifi networks.
Device manager reports that it is using Broadcom 802.11ac Network Adapter Driver version 6.30.223.170
This matches the driver version supplied by Mavericks bootcamp assistant.
Is there a more up to date driver?
I've tried a few simple things such as preventing windows putting the card to sleep to save power but it had no affect.
At the moment I'm getting by with an old belkin usb ethernet adapter.
I have the same problem with my brand new MacPro (6-Core, D700, 1tb SSD)
I have called Apple support to report this issue, in the mean time I've done the following tests:
Windows 7/8 tests NO Joy...
I have also tried tricking the windows 8 installer by doing the following.
1)Boot of Windows 8 installation (USB)
2)At the setup screen it will ask you to format your boot camp created drive to NTFS so that windows can be installed.
After the formatting is done and windows is ready to install i swap the Windows 8 USB stick for a Windows 7 USB stick then I click on next.
3)Windows starts copying the files just like it did on the Windows 8 installation and I get the same error.
"Can't update boot configuration"
I guess it has nothing to do with the Windows USB Stick since I've tried installing Win 7/8 and 8.1 with the exact same error.
I have not received any news from Apple support on this issue.
Any other ideas or suggestions ?
Thanks!
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